NotesFAQContact Us
Collection
Advanced
Search Tips
Showing all 2 results Save | Export
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
PDF on ERIC Download full text
Harmon, Jon; Warnakulasooriya, Rasil – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The Additive Factor Model (AFM) is a cognitive diagnostic model that can be used to predict student performance on items in a context that allows for student learning. Within AFM, "skills" have a learning rate, and student acquisition of a skill depends only on the number of opportunities a student has had to exercise that skill and the…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Factor Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Item Response Theory
Peer reviewed Peer reviewed
Direct linkDirect link
Xu, Jianzhong – Journal of Educational Research, 2010
The author examined purposes for doing homework as perceived by 969 eighth-grade students from 52 classes and 831 11th-grade students from 45 classes. Through an exploratory factor analysis, 15 homework purposes were reduced to a 3-factor structure: peer-oriented, adult-oriented, and learning-oriented reasons. A series of 3 multilevel models were…
Descriptors: Homework, Student Attitudes, Factor Structure, Factor Analysis